One of the 12 Things Good Bosses Believe is that "My success – and that of my people – depends largely on being the master of obvious and mundane things, not of magical, obscure, or breakthrough ideas or methods."Perhaps one of the things good bloggers should believe is that success depends largely on mixing the […]
Alisa Bowman, like me, is a ghost, but in her case, she writes books. Actually, she helps write books, as she explains in her blog post "Ghostwriting Revealed", because it takes a lot of different people to write and publish a book. The book’s author, Bowman explains, serves as director, the one who hires key […]
"My job is to serve as a human shield, to protect my people from external intrusions, distractions, and idiocy of every stripe." That, according to Harvard Business Review blogger Robert Sutton, is just one of twelve things good bosses believe. I don’t think it’s going too far to say that bloggers for business share the […]
Sure, the technique of using lists in ads, articles, and blog posts can be overdone. Still, there’s no denying – numbers are attention grabbers. When My Yahoo browser served up the titles "40 Fantastic Uses For Baking Soda" and "46 Smart Uses For Salt" – hey, I just had to know if this stuff was […]
Thomas Edison refused to think of his more than 10,000 attempts to create a commercially viable electric light bulb as failures. "I have successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work," he said. This anecdote is one of many author Robby Slaughter uses in his book Failure: the Secret to Success, to illustrate how failure […]
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